"Everybody thinks that Tinker Toys is designed for their generation, but really, it was designed by a stone mason in 1941 who watched his kids play with stone and pencils, and he got this brilliant idea," Moynihan said.

Kids have 1,500 feet of floor space to explore Tinker Toys while learning through imagination and play.

The exhibit was built in collaboration with General Electric and Playskool in an effort to teach kids all kinds of lessons from the basics of building to building ideas using Tinker Toys to fill idea models.

"The kids fill these Tinker Toy ideas into it to build a graph of their values and what's important in life," Moynihan said.

Kids can learn about wind power while building models, and they can have fun with word play with a life-size Tinker Toys sentence station, where they start off with a key phrase and spin their way to a new sentence.

"And then they spin wheels to get the next word that you want, and of course the next one, and of course at Port Discovery, literacy is so key," Moynihan said.

The exhibit is geared toward children ages 3 to 10, and in this age of technology, it gives them a chance to grab hold and have fun instead of swiping a screen or clicking a mouse.

"Adults will love it too because it reminds us of when we were kids," said 11 News reporter Jennifer Franciotti. "I have no idea what I just made, but I sure did have fun doing it."